The Menil Collection: Virgin & Child A. Identification Having never visited the Menil Collection before‚ I was awed by the size and beauty of this private collection. Founded by John de Menil and Dominique de Menil‚ the Menil Collection houses all of the pieces that are the focus of this paper. The piece of art I chose to write about from the Menil Collection is the Virgin & Child. Originating from Northern France in the early to mid-fourteenth century‚ the Virgin & Child is completely sculpted
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Christ again as a baby is shown looking like a small baby and not a miniature adult. The angels knelt in the front are shown as small continuing the significance perspective many artist prior had done. A later painting again by Giotto‚ the Madonna and Child 1320-30 shows the mother gazing off into the distance‚ somewhere else; maybe into the future with the foreknowledge of the child’s fate. Renaissance art focused on portraying the natural form with human figures having dimension and weight. Whereas
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Virgin and Child Enthroned Giotto di Bondone This Virgin and Child Enthroned is dated from 1305-1310‚ and is from Florence‚ Italy. It is made of tempera and gold on a wood panel. The piece uses hieratic scale making the Virgin and Child much larger than the surrounding saints and religious figures. It also enthrones images and has a flat‚ gold background. Giotto was one of the first artists to use 3D beings‚ and shows this in his piece. He shows the subjects as full‚ plainly draped bulky bodies
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Virgin and child with Lilies Currently situated at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston‚ Luca della Robbia’s Virgin and Child with Lilies is a sculpture created in relief to give the impression that it has been raised above the background plane. This fine piece of art has been sculpted from terracotta‚ a glazed clay-based ceramic and along with clear religious aspects; the work of art is given a hard realism via individual techniques of the artist. The relief shows colors such as blue‚ white‚
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The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne Rebecca Townsend Hum2235 Dr. Hoover Edison College Fall 2012 Townsend 1 The painting of The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne took more than a decade to complete. It was created in the 16th century‚ in Florence Italy. A young master artist declined the original commission for The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and suggested Leonardo da Vinci. The monks who commissioned the painting
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Leonardo da Vinci‚ Virgin and Child with St. Anne‚ 1510‚ oil on panel This piece‚ painted in about 1510‚ was rumoured to have been commissioned by Louis XII to celebrate his daughter’s birth in 1499 but by the time da Vinci had finished the piece and was satisfied with it‚ it was too late. Two women and a small infant child dominate the frame and are all seated in a very idealistic outdoor‚ natural setting. St Anne is seated centrally‚ her body covered by the Virgin Mary who sits on her
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Virgin and Child Scuplture After several visits to the information desk and walking through about two dozen different galleries‚ I finally found the sculpture of Virgin and Child. She stands on a pedestal totaling approximately 6 feet tall‚ but the sculpture alone is only about half the height. There is a placard on the pedestal citing historical information. The sculpture is French Gothic and is made from marble. She was sculpted somewhere between the years 1325 and 1350. It is also noted
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authenticity and the rendering of life structures and feelings. First‚ In Cimabue‚ you have little feeling of extraordinary expansions. The heavenly attendants to the side of the virgin are stacked upon each other‚ instead of subsiding in space. It stays hazy how the Virgin sits on the pad on her position of authority. Most strikingly‚ the prophets in the specialties at the base are shown from the same point from the Virgin above. Numerous perspectives along these lines exist together in a similar
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Madonna and Child Enthroned and Giotto’s Madonna Enthroned depicts the Virgin mother holding her son Jesus Christ upon a golden throne with angels at either shoulder. After looking at Cimabue’s work‚ it is debatable whether his apprentice Giottos surpassed the man. In manners of skill‚ Giotto’s more classical and naturalist style took on other stylistic components that very well exhibited a 3-dimensional space upon a 2-dimensional plane. In personal opinion‚ if the goal was to surpass Cimabue‚ then Giotto
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as religious authority were portrayed within the skilled‚ meticulous manner in which many paintings and sculptures were produced. A sculpture‚ entitled Virgin and Child‚ created by a follower the Master of the Dangolsheimer Madonna‚ exemplifies the popularity of religiously based artwork of the time‚ particularly of the Virgin Mary and the child Christ‚ as well as the shared techniques of the Northern Renaissance. Although much of the art created within the Northern Renaissance was unclearly intended
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